Prepare to Be Aggregated People!

Marc Cantor introduced
the alpha of his PeopleAggregator.
I spent a little time on it and built a profile, etc. The
interesting part from an identity perspective is built-in support for
SXIP 2.0, OpenID 1.0, and Flickr ID in the system, in addition to the
native authentication service.

As Marc said in a note to me:

We'll be introducing
the notion of using any or either or these ID systems within our system, so
they'll be a lot of 'explaining' to do.
But instead of hiding all that away (as I've been told I should) we're going
to proudly wear our geeks hat high, and try and show people why tying into
user-centric ID systems is a good thing.

Indeed. I think Marc is very good to embark on an user-centric
identity experiment as he launches his baby. This will add to their
headaches, but give the identity community a much-needed source of
data, bug reports, and other fun stuff.